hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. macfarlane in for max foster. >> usa, usa, usa! >> wyoming has spoken and we have made it clear that we are taking our country back! >> the people of wyoming are going to tell her, liz, you're fired, get out of here.

>> i want wyoming to be protected and i don't feel that liz is doing that job. >> she stood up for what she believes in. >> this primary election is over, but now the real work begins. >> welcome, it is wednesday, august 17th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 a.m. in wyoming where voters have spoken handing former u.s. president donald trump and his supporters perhaps their biggest primary victory yet. just a few months ahead of the midterm elections. trump's most forceful congressional critic liz cheney has lost her house seat. ♪ well i won't back down, no, i

won't back down ♪ >> cheney conceded to her trump-backed rifle harriet hageman, but issued a rallying call to all americans who care about protecting democracy. cheney is vowing to do everything she can to keep the former u.s. president out of the white house. and steer the republican party away from his lies and influence. jeff zelleeny was there and has that report. >> reporter: congresswoman liz cheney concedes defeat in her congressional primary race but is looking ahead. now the real work begins. in a sweeping speech outside of jackson, wyoming on tuesday night, the congresswoman talked about the threats to democracy. she talked directly about former president donald trump saying she could have woon re-election had she followed the path of election lies. she said that she was simply not willing to do that. >> two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote.

i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump's lie about the 2020 election, it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. >> reporter: the speech was infused with history. she's a student of history, historian in her own right. talking about the young and fragile democracy that the united states indeed has. she talked about the need to bring americans together, republicans, democrats, independents. she urged them to join her. what she did not say is join her for what exactly. she tiptoed to the line, clearly making the case she's going to be involved in the fight ahead for democracy, but didn't say in what form that would take. she did not talk about a presidential run of her own as many supporters at her event certainly would like her dto do.

but she did talk about the urgency facing the country and the imperative nature of republicans and democrats and independents to come together against donald trump. she said her greatest goal is still keeping him from the oval office. jeff zeleny, cnn, jackson, wyoming. >> wyoming has one congressional seat, just one. and the cheney name is strong in that state. liz cheney's father is the former republican vice president dick cheney and her loss is a telling sign of trump's influence over voters and the republican party. wyoming's winner harriet hageman knows it. >> what wyoming has shown today is that while it may not be easy, we can dislodge entrenched politicians who believe that they have risen above the people they are supposed to represent and serve. we want a congress that actually legislates, not one that delegates its lawmaking authority to administrative agencies in violation of the very foundation of our

constitutional structure. obviously we're all very grateful to president trump who recognizes that wyoming has only one congressional representative and we have to make it count. his clear and unwavering support from the very beginning propelled us to victory tonight. >> donald trump is also very pleased with the results which he called wonderful for america. he posted on his truth social website that cheney's loss is far bigger than had been anticipated and that she should be ashamed of herself. trump went on to say that this should be seen as a rebuke of the january 6 committee which he referred to as plit olitical ha and thugs. now to alaska. ala cass's primaries are unique in that the top four finishers regardless of party advance to the general election. in the senate race incumbent republican and trump critic lisa murkowski will be on the ballot in november. so will her republican rival

kelly tshibaka who is endorsed by donald trump and also democrat patricia chesbro will also advance there. and sarah palin is one of the candidates who made the cut in the race for at large house seat. fellow republican nick begich and democrat mary peltola will join her on the november ballot. 40s spot fourth spot is too early to all. and there was a special election to fill the remainder of the late congressman's term but none received 50% of the vote so it will be a while before the winner is determined. alaska is using a rank choice voting system that will start the tabulation on august 31. thomas gift is the director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london and he is joining us from harrisburg, pennsylvania. thomas, great to have you with us. >> thanks, good morning. >> so let's just start on what

this is all going to mean for liz cheney herself. she said again in her concession speech that she will continue to focus on denying donald trump a second term in office, but having lost her seat now, what political power does she have to continue with that fight and where do you expect her to refocus her political goals? >> well, it is a big question mark at this point. and i think what we can say is where i don't think that she will go and that is in the role of presidential contender. you know, a lot of her supporters certainly want her to jump into that race, but, you know, i would say within today's republican party where its political center of gravity is right now, it is hard to think of a candidate who would be much worse position to win the nomination where the primary voting bloc is certainly trum trumpified. she has a strong conservative record, but this is not the same party that nominated george bush

or john mccain or mitt romney. winning over a strong number of voters is not enough to succeed in the primaries. even if cheney did somehow hang to get the republican nomination, i think the crossover appeal would be limited. so i would imagine that she would be involved in some super pacs, maybe a think tank trying to get involved in a grass roots supporting candidates that are against donald trump, but it is very unclear. she left that a question mark. >> and this result was actually expected, you know, to go this way, but it was a big loss for liz cheney. donald trump and his allies have basically spent a large part of the summer turning republican primaries across the country. so what does this result speak to in terms of how consequential this is for donald trump but also for the wider republican party, what does it say about the state of the party? >> well, cheney's loss certainly fits into a broader pattern for

sure. and we've seen a litany of far right trump-backed candidates win gop primaries to date. in pennsylvania where i am for example, doug mastriano who has peddled conspiracy theories is the republican nominee for governor. we've seen elections up and down the ballot in various states, really a sobering thought when you think about what these trends represent. i think that there is some skepticism about whether these ultra maga candidates can be viable in general elections and we've seen some liberal pacs even work to get trump-endorsed candidates the nominations anticipating that they would be easier to beat in a general election. to me i think that is playing with fire. over and over we've seen the repudiation of establishment politicians. i don't think that impulse is fading and given trump's resurgent base particularly in the wake of the mar-a-lago search, i think the possibility of those republican candidates

gaining momentum is even stronger now. >> absolutely. as we look ahead to the other primaries under way in alaska, we know that lisa murkowski has advanced thousand as has sarah palin. interesting really that palin was almost the precursor to trump, you know, heading into this. so how do you see both of those races playing out, especially when murkowski when you consider that she was in many ways quite similar to liz cheney in terms of her background. >> you're absolutely right. murkowski oi think has a better of a chance simply because there is more of an independent streak there than wyoming. sarah palin, i think that she is a real wild card. she's certainly had a lot of support in alaska. i think one of the big critiques of her is that she's been spending a lot of her time out of the state. she's become also kind of a reality tv star, obviously that

worked well for donald trump, but it is unclear if she can duplicate that success. so it will be interesting to see for sure some very different candidates and given the unique electoral setup with rank choice ba balloting, you have some candidates going on to a further stage that are quite different, quite diverse. i think a lot of it will depend ultimately on who eats each other's votes. if you have two republicans versus the democrat and so on. so we'll have to see. >> a couple months to go until we know the results of that. thoms as gift, thank you so much for your perspective. appreciate it. >> thank you. well, while donald trump scored a big win with liz cheney's defeat in wyoming, he is still under intense legal pressure. we've learned two of trump's most senior former aides were questioned in what is now a criminal investigation into his hanging of classified documents. jessica schneider has the

details. >> reporter: there are new revelations that former president trump's two top white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin were trump's designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. so they could have shared details with the fbi maybe about what was taken to mar-a-lago, whether trump insisted that documents remain with him, and why exactly 11 sets of classified documents remained at mar-a-lago until last monday when fbi agents searched trump's palm beach home. now, those details are coming out just as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing that he will hold a hearing on thursday afternoon on whether to publicly release the affidavit, that is what provided the basis for last monday's search. the justice department is seeking to keep it completely secret, they say that any release would reveal what they are calling highly sensitive information about witnesses plus

specific investigative techniques. so the doj is asking a judge to keep it under wraps because they say if it is released, it would provide too much of a roadmap to the government's ongoing investigation. so the arguments are coming from all sides. the justice department, trump's team that needs to file a response on wednesday morning, and also media outlets who want this affidavit released including cnn, all of these arguments will play out in court, in federal court in florida, on thursday afternoon. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> team trump's legal troubles don't end with the search of mar-a-lago. donald trump's former attorney rudy giuliani is expected to appear before a special grand jury later today in atlanta. prosecutors informed giuliani on monday he is now a target of their wide ranging investigation. they are examining whether team trump violated the law in the efforts to flip the 2020 election results this georgia after trump lost to joe biden.

meanwhile is judge is ordered jenna ellis to also appear before the grand jury in georgia. fulton county investigators believe ellis helped donald trump and his associates push claims of election fraud in the state. a court date is still being worked out. now to another twist in georgia's election probe, according to a new court filing, even trump supporters involved in the so-called fake elector scheme want the fulton county district attorney disqualified from the 2020 election investigation. a judge overseeing the special grand jury recently blocked fani willis from investigating georgia state senator burt jones who also served as a so-called fake elector. the judge's decision came after it was revealed willis held a fundraiser for jones' political opponent, a conflict of interest of course. just ahead on "cnn newsroom," a major legislative victory just before the midterms. how the white house and democrats are celebrating the signing of the "inflation reduction act".

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a look now at european markets after uk inflation hit a new 40 year high. rate of inflation rose to just over 10% year on year in july, up 9.4% in june. and energy, fuel and food prices have been rising. over the last 12 months electricity prices have risen in the uk by 54% and gas prices are up 95.7%. fuel costs like pet control havo risen. and a quick look at the u.s. futures, wall street looks to extend its recent rally, you see

the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 all currently down. on tuesday surprisingly good earnings from walmart and home depot drove the s&p and dow higher. white house and democrats are celebrating a major legislative victory. president biden signed the $750 billion "inflation reduction act" into law tuesday, a sweeping climate, health care and tax package. it comes just as democrats are gearing up for a tough battle in the november midterms. mr. biden is calling it one of the most significant pieces of legislation in u.s. history. >> too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat. too often we hand the biggest microphones to the critics and cynics who delight in declaring failure while those committed to making real progress do the hard

work of governing. making progress in this country is as big and complicated, clearly not easy. it has never been easy. but with unwavering conviction, commitment and patience, progress does come. >> the biden administration also moved to cancel almost $4 billion in student loan debt for those who attended the now defunct itt technical institute. the move impacts more than 200,000 students. the school shut down after the government pulled the plug of its federal funding over issues with its accreditation standards. u.s. first lady jill biden has covid, the first time she's tested positive for the virus. she was last seen by reporters in south carolina on sunday while on vacation with the president. communications director says that the first lady is feeling good and has mild symptoms. according to the white house, she's double vaccinated and double boosted and is taking the

antiviral drug paxlovid. she'll isolate in south carolina until she has two consecutive negative covid tests. and updated covid-19 booster shots that specifically target o omicron subvariants ba.4 and ba.5 could be available as soon as next month. jacqueline, whoward has more. what you can tell us is this. >> the latest from the white house is that updated covid-19 booster shots could be available by early to mid september. and that is according to the white house covid-19 response coordinator dr. jha. he spoke to the event on tuesday. have a listen. >> good news is here, about two months ago the fda authorized the new vaccines which should be arriving in the next few weeks. they have part of the original strength, but a part of ba.5, the virus that is out there

right now. the big picture bottom line is these are substantial upgrades in our vaccines in terms of their ability to prevent infection, to prevent transmission, certainly to prevent serious illness. >> and we heard him say that as we see the omicron subvariant ba.5 dominating here in the u.s., having an updated vaccine will be important to maintain protection against covid-19. right now omicron subvarient ba.5 causes about 88.8% of all covid-19 cases in the u.s. dr. jha also said that the upgraded vaccines will be especially important this year in terms of reducing the strain on health care systems during the upcoming flu season. the u.s. has seen little to no flu transmission for the past couple years largely thanks to masking, but overall according to the white house, we should hear more in the coming weeks about having a vaccine that

specifically targets the subvarient. it is expected that the updated vaccine will be for every adult, but of course that is all contingent on the update authorizing the vaccine and the cdc signing off on it as well. >> thanks, jacqueline. people in the u.s. will be able to buy hearing aids directly from the store without requesting a custom fitting from an audiologist. the rule change will make devices more widely available across the united states and drive down costs. and that is important because medicare does not pay for hearing aids and neither do most private insurance companies. over the counter oig hearing aids could be available as early as poctober. california is urging residents to conserve electricity today between the hours of 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. due it high temperatures. officials recommend avoid using appliances during that time and turning off all unnecessary

lights. the national weather service issued several heat advisories are temperatures are expected to peak in different areas throughout the weekend. meteorologist pedram javaheri has more on this. >> good morning, christina. yes, the western united states really up and down the coast here dealing with excessive heat conditions. in washington, parts of idaho, central california, even into southern california, heat alerts for some spots to reach as warm as 110 degrees into the afternoon hours. notice sacramento, state capital here temps in the 102-1 04 rang. the trend especially farther inland, notice what happens here, salt lake city, 97, 98, down to 82. phoenix down to 104, down to 92. i note this because very wet weather moving across the western u.s. the next several days will bring relief across that region. seattle even they are dealing with the another round of excessive heat up to 90 the next

several days and notice drop back down for a few days settling down around the middle 80s. still plenty of cloud cover and storms in the region keeps the temperatures at bay as well, have rainfall totals as much as 5 inches across kansas and unsettled conditions mainly around the southern and central u.s. where we expect temps to be the coolest we've seen in weeks across this region. so a lot of people going to be talking about the nice change here. dallas, 102, down to 85. we know how hot it has been in kansas. so finally some relief here with the added cloud cover the next several days. >> good news. thank you. and still ahead, liz cheney may be losing her seat in congress, but she's promising to keep up her fight against donald trump and his election lies. >> no office in this land is more important than the principles that we are all sworn

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welcome back. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with our top stories this hour. two former white house lawyers were questioned by the fbi over the documents seized at mar-a-lago. this as a judge is set to decide whether the doj should release the affidavit into the search. liz cheney has conceded in wyoming's primary election race. voters chose trump-backed harriet hageman to take the state's lone congressional house seat. in a scathes speech turs esday

night, cheney continued to to fight. and now she is the eighth not returning to congress next year, and cheney said she will do whatever it takes to keep trump out of the white house. >> this is a fight for all of us together. i'm a conservative republican, i believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded. i love its history. and i love what our party has stood for. but i love my country more. >> wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power, you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us and you will do what is in our best interests. and if you don't, we will fire you. >> liz cheney's loss on tuesday means that another election denier is one step closer to congress. meanwhile hackers and election security officials gathered in las vegas over the weekend to put voting machine

vulnerabilities to the test without stoking any election conspiracy theories. donie o'sullivan reports. >> so one head of the cut down, second head pops up. >> we've had two years of nonstop conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. many of which center around these voting machines that they were in some way hacked and used to steal votes and to steal the election. we are here at defcon in las vegas which some called hacker summer camp and hackers are doing their very best this weekend to break into these voting machines. isn't what you are doing here by tearing the machines apart and showing that they can be vulnerable, is that not just going to play into more of the fears, more of the conspiracy theories about the election in. >> i think a lot of the fears and conspiracies really thrive in darkness. here we have like a clear box

model where we open things up, because we can look inside and you are actually able to get your hands on these voting machines yourselves. it is not that there are not vulnerabilities within these machines that need to be addressed. just because there are vulnerabilities doesn't mean that they were manipulated or exploited in the way that certain parties are saying that they are. >> reporter: you spent the weekend tearing apart voting machines. you've talked a lot about vulnerabilities. but have you ever found evidence that vulnerabilities have been used to change the result of an american election? >> never. same with all the other experts. we have always said extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and we've never seen that kind of evidence. j vulnerabilities exist in almost all software regardless of where you find it. even in nuclear power plants you will find that. there are a system of defenses and protections to ensure that

bad guy can't get to them. and those exist in voting systems as web. >> reporter: chris krebs oversaw the 2020 election before being fired by trump for speaking out against conspiracy theories. >> biggest vulnerability in democracy is the people. it is the brain. it is the perception hack. >> reporter: cyber experts here say the big challenge to the 2022 midterms is not the machines, it is misinformation. >> i'm afraid even when we note vulnerabilities of the system, i'm more afraid about misinformation claiming what happened actually didn't happen and then will get a hold in people's minds. >> we want to focus on pushing security forward and instead we're responding to death threats. >> reporter: nate and michael know all about conspiracy theories. they are part of the election security team from mamarco take

in arizona, and they are looking to expose vulnerabilities and getting them fixed. >> we have not seen a single accusation that produced tangible results. >> reporter: conspiracy theories pushed from guys like the high my pillow guy say they changed votes. >> if i'm right, china took our country right now. do you care? >> how does it feel as a voting systems expert listening to people like mike lindell? >> it makes me sad. it makes me sad from the fact that all of the resources, all of the energy which could have been used for something beneficial is now misused. >> reporter: misused to per pet uhe eight misinformation. >> the firmer it gets set in

stone, you repeat the lie long enough and many times it becomes that reality, their reality. ultimately this comes down to the voters. what do people want. do we want to be a democracy. and if the answer is yes, better start damn acting like it. >> reporter: and while many of the machines you saw in the piece are used in the u.s., they are also used in countries all around the world. and we saw hackers putting them to their test there. one thing that is just very important to underline is that as the expert said in that piece, they are hackers, they want to be able to break into systems, to poke holes in them, to find flaws. and they have not seen in the u.s. any kind of vulnerabilities at the scale where votes would be changed in a way that would overturn an election despite what the pillow guy and what despite what the former u.s. president is saying. back to you. >> very interesting. okay. iran may be close to reviving

its nuclear deal but it is demanding a few things from the u.s. first. what tehran wants and how washington is responding, just ahead. plus parts of the southwestern u.s. is facing a potentially catastrophic collapse of their water supply unless they take drastic measures to cut back.

south korean defense officials are monitoring developments from pyongyang after north korea apparently fired two cruise missiles off the coast. this is not banned under u.n. sanctions. this as the u.s. is scheduled to hold joints military drills with south korea next week. meanwhile the u.s. air force tested an unarmed nuclear capable long range missile, minute man 3 was launched from vandenberg air force base in california, it flew 4200 miles to a test range near the

marshall islands. the air force says it is meant to demonstrate that the nuclear deterrent is safe, secure and reliable. u.s. regularly tests intercontinental weapons to verify their accuracy. iran is apparently worried about getting trumped again if it resumes its nuclear deal with the u.s. and other world powers. a diplomatic source says tehran wants compensation if the u.s. pulls out of the agreement like donald trump did in 2018. the revived deal would limit iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon in exchange for sanctions relief. and fred pleitgen has covered iran stextensively and is joini us live from moscow. what is the response from the united states to these demands? >> reporter: well, so far the u.s. says it is studying the demands put forward by the iraniance. the european union says it is studying them as well. but so far the vibe from the iranians after statements made by u.s. officials have not been

very negative, they still believe that there are positive vibes out there, they believe that deal can be done very quickly. i want to listen in quickly to what the state department had to say about what they received from the iranians and how things could move forward. let's listen in. >> we started this process in the spring of 2021. it is now nearly late summer of 2022. if all sides, if the iranians had demonstrated a seriousness of purpose from the earliest days of this, we would have been able to achieve a mutual return to compliance with the jcpoa in relatively short order. >> reporter: of course the iranians have very different take on that. they believe that the biden administration when it came into office could have immediately gone back into the jcpoa and dropped all the sanctions but of course the negotiations have been quite difficult over the past couple of months. and the reason for that is exactly what you said, the lead-in to all of this, the iranians don't want to get trumped again as they put it, they say they had bad terms with

the jcpoa and the big problem for them was they destroyed large parts of their nuclear program and then donald trump went and left the jcpoa and they had a destroyed nuclear program at the same time we're getting hit with massive sanctions. and iranians say they don't want that to happen again, that is where the whole term of compensation seems to be coming from. it seems to be less monetary compensation when you speak to people who are close to the negotiations, they call it more a price to pay. they essentially are saying that if this happens again, they understand that they can't stop the u.s. from leaving the nuclear agreement again if there is a new administration or something else comes up, but they want to make sure that there is a price to pay, which means that they probably want to destroy their nuclear program or permanently disable their nuclear program to a lesser extent and they also want compensation for instance for companies that do business with iran. >> it will be very interesting to see how the united states responds to this. fred pleitgen, thanks very much. for the second time in a

week, explosions have rocked a russian military site in crimea. the russian defense ministry says sabotage is behind tuesday's blast at an ammunition depot, but ukraine has stopped short of claiming responsibility. and to the east ukraine is acknowledging some russian gains in the donbas with one ukrainian commander calling the situation intense but fully controlled. meanwhile the first shipment of humanitarian food aid bound for africa since the war began left ukraine on tuesday. u.n. chartered ship is headed to ethiopia. david mckenzie is joining us from kyiv. we've seen ships carrying agricultural shipments, but this shipment is the first of its kind because it is helping countries facing famine particularly in africa. >> reporter: that's right. it is a bit of light in this otherwise very dark story. this ship is used by the world

food program to get grain this to at this point ethiopia where they have been struggling with famine-like conditions. now, it is still just early days for this agreement. 23,000 tons of grain on that particular vessel. they have managed to get out around half a million tons, but i remember just around a month ago, we were in tunisia reporting and at that point 20 billion tons of grain according to the ukrainians was held hostage by the russians. so the hope is that they can accelerate the shipments to make a dent in the very precarious situation in parts of east africa. but it is still a positive moment and here is the world food program. >> we're very excited that this is the first ship to be leaving this port and humanitarian ship is leading the way. we also hope that this will be the beginning of normal

operations and that ukrainian food can start to go out and support the world. and end hunger and bring down global food prices. >> reporter: overnight there has been several significant strikes by russian forces according to ukrainians both west of the capital to where i'm standing as well as several strikes on the black seaport close to where the grain shipments are leaving from. but i think in terms of intensity over the last few days and weeks in fact, the eastern conflict has been extremely intense with ukrainian xha commanders are strike at least 800 times a day. that really is where this conflict should be watching very closely indeed. >> and i know you will continue do that. david mckenzie from kyiv, thanks very much. still ahead this hour, the climate crisis is taking an unprecedented toll on some of america's most crucial reservoirs and rivers.

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>> you are looking at video of a massive tornado-like waterspout forming off the coast of northwestern florida. it happened during tuesday morning thunderstorms. one witness told cnn, it scared the heck out of me. it would me too. the drought in the southwestern u.s. has reached a new tier of crisis for the first time, specifically a federally designed two tier water shortage condition. it means that arizona, nevada and as well as mexico will have to further cut back on water use from the colorado river starting january. as bill weir has more on this now. >> reporter: whiskey is for drinking. water is for fighting. that supposed mark twain quote has been a western slogan since the first settlers. but now the worst drought, as states, tribal nations and mexico fighting over every

precious drop. >> to date the states collectively have not identified and adopted specific actions of sufficient magnitude that would stabilize the system. >> reporter: that was the commissioner in charge of dams and reservoirs admitting that upper and lower basin states have failed to agree on ways to cut their water use by up to 25%. >> i think ultimately the states are going to realize they are playing russian roulette. and they will have to come to their senses. >> reporter: for almost on years, pat mulroy led an aggressive campaign to tear up laws, reuse waste water and scold water wasters. >> can't water in the middle of the day, ma'am. you will be fined. >> reporter: all measures she would like to see happen downstream. >> i think that they are kind of kicking the can down the road past the election if you want me to be frank about it. i don't think that anybody wants to make great public

announcements about measures they may have to take prior to the election. >> reporter: rather than force new action, the feds will let the states keep talking while the next round of automatic cuts will lower water delivery by 7% to new mexico, 8% to nevada and 21% to arizona. >> you can hear the crunching. it is starting to dry up. >> reporter: here alfalfa farmers are already being paid to let their fields go fallow. and some aswitching to crops tht grow in the desert. >> looking at lower water usage crops is a solution in the dryer future to allow communities to sustain themselves. >> reporter: and california will not face mandatory cuts next year, but their governor is already warning of a future with a lot more people and a lot less water. >> science and the data leads us to now understand that we will lose 10% of our water supply by

2040 if all things are equal. we will lose an additional 10% of our supply by 2040. >> we have the very real possibility this coming year, if we have another lousy winter, all things be equal, that we will drive this lake down to elevation 1,000. that is 100 feet above dead pool. and you are at the bottom of the martini glass. so it doesn't take much to tip that over and get to the point where nothing can go downstream. and if you don't take it seriously now, if you think that you are going to avoid this, do a rain din dance, go pray, do whatever that we have a great winter, you are insane. >> reporter: on the same day of the new report, president biden also signed new legislation, the most ambuitious climate legislation in history which includes $4 billion for drought relief, it will likely go to rm if aer farmers paying them not to grow

cotton oral fall take in the coming year, pay being people to pull up their lawns. the ideas have been bandied about for decades but they take time and money and in the meantime all anybody can do is conserve every precious drop. bill weir, cnn, lake mead, nevada. opening statements are set to begin later today in r. kelly's federal trial in chicago. the r&b singer is facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges. he has pleaded not guilty. he's already been sentenced 30 years in prison on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. the nba says that it won't play any games on november 8, the day of the u.s. midterm elections. and is encouraging fans to vote that day. teams will use their platforms before the election to distribute information on voting processes and voter registration

deadlines. the full schedule for the upcoming regular season will be revealed later today. and serena williams lost the opening round of the western and southern open in ohio on tuesday, this is her second match since announcing that she plans to evolve away from tennis. she is still set to play the u.s. open later this month. her opponent, reigning u.s. open champion, said it was a true honor to share the court with williams. and quick thinking from football players from a high school in georgia are getting a lot of attention for their hair row heroism. they rushed to help an injured woman from her car after an accident, they had to force open a door. and players hope the woman they rescued is doing okay. what a team of champions. that does it for this hour. i'm christina macfarlane in london.

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